"He is missing the point that in New Jersey, the tax crisis is singularly property taxes".
— but because the person who said it worked for a president singularly intent on cutting taxes to redistribute income to America's wealthiest.
Consequently millions of the working poor will only get a third of the gain going to their better-off counterparts, and tax cuts become a singularly ineffective means of supporting low-income households (even more ineffective, you might say, seeing as even under today's system most of the gains already flow to the better-off).
But tax-free municipal bonds have been singularly blessed.
In a singularly ill-timed move, it also introduced a tax on all bank withdrawals, which chased away even more depositors.
Though the Treasury Department and the real estate industry have termed the program a success, helping 1.8 million people buy homes, many tax policy experts say it has been singularly cost-ineffective: most of the $12.6 billion in credits through end of February was collected by people who would have bought homes anyway or who in some cases were not even eligible.
While they've been doing this they've (apparently) singularly failed to line up behind him in a campaign for "tax equalisation" with those awful supermarkets, the rotters.
Consider that in the survey, people with incomes over $100,000, who would be singularly affected by raising the cap on income subject to the payroll tax, favored doing so by the same large majorities as for those who would not be affected.
So the prospect of America's hitherto untravelled president going abroad, at taxpayers' expense, on an adventure of untold, untellable cost, comes at a singularly bad moment for the individual states - and especially for Washington, whose New Economy tax-base has been steadily shrivelling over the last two years.
The sentiment involved in giving is fine, but the drawbacks -- seeing one's artwork picked up for a fraction of its real value, foregoing any tax benefits, the limited likelihood of a donation furthering one's career or even being singularly publicized -- are enormous, leaving them with the choice of being stupid or stingy.
And, it is a slice of that same "squeezed middle" — a term borrowed from President Bill Clinton by the opposition leader Ed Miliband to denote what was once called the lower middle-class — which feels singularly threatened by the coalition's contentious plans to reduce Britain's crippling deficit through a combination of tax increases and spending cuts.
